Vengeance

In Vengeance, amateur detectives, Ruth, her husband, Ted, and their neighbors, retired CIA operatives, Lil and David, are back to solve another murder. Their neighbor's nineteen-year-old daughter is dead. The police conclude that she died of a drug overdose. Katie's grandmother is convinced Katie has been murdered. She enlists the help of her neighbors who begin to look for likely suspects. Our intrepid team is put to the test after a second murder occurs. Leads take them from Delaware to Arizona to Virginia.

In Vengeance, amateur detectives, Ruth, her husband, Ted, and their neighbors, retired CIA operatives, Lil and David are back to solve another murder. Their neighbor's nineteen-year-old granddaughter, Katie, a troubled young woman with a recurring drug habit, is dead. The police conclude that Katie died of an accidental drug overdose. Katie's grandmother, Connie, is convinced her granddaughter has been murdered. She enlists the help of her four neighbors who begin to look for likely suspects. Whittling down the list of suspects is a challenge since Katie fantasized that dozens of casual acquaintances were in love with her. Had one of her fantasy romances gone very wrong? Our intrepid team is put to the test after a second murder occurs. Leads take them from Delaware, to Arizona, to Virginia in pursuit of the killer.

Elizabeth Ticknor, a retired CIA operations analyst, is the author of Secrets, an Odyssey, a novel loosely based on her family's life overseas in the CIA. Previous works also include Endangered Species, a novella set in East Timor, as well as a collection of short stories; Spicy Alphabet Soup, a flash fiction collection, and Loose Threads, a mystery set in Ecuador, Alaska, Arizona, Nevada and Hawaii. The author and her husband live in Reston, Virginia, and Lewes, Delaware.